Laptop Dell Latitude E6410

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These notes are very succinct, only enlightening differences with Laptop_Dell_Latitude_E6500 notes.

Editing BIOS settings

  • System Configuration
    • Integrated NIC; Enabled
    • SATA Operation: AHCI
    • Latitude ON Reader: disabled
  • Virtualization support
    • Enable VT for Direct I/O: enabled

Installation

From Wheezy netinstall iso

Partitioning

  • Create part#1, 255MB, ext2, /boot
  • Create part#2, 4GB, physical volume for encryption (will be our swap) => swap
  • Create part#3, 30GB, physical volume for encryption (will be our root) => ext4, user_xattr
  • Create part#5, 90GB, not formatted (will be our /home)
  • Create part#6, 35.8GB, not formatted (will be our /professional)

Video

for now, keeping default driver nouveau

3D not tried, compiz fails

Touchpad

Was a hell to get something else than a stupid "ps/2 mouse"

A few bugreports are tracking the problem, e.g. on Fedora and Ubuntu, where I could find a very freshly patched psmouse driver

wget http://people.canonical.com/~sforshee/alps-touchpad/psmouse-alps-0.9/psmouse-alps-dkms_0.9_all.deb
sudo modprobe -r psmouse
sudo dpkg -i psmouse-alps-dkms_0.9_all.deb 
sudo modprobe psmouse

And everything works like a charm, e.g.

synclient -l
synclient CircularScrolling=1
synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1
synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll=1

Audio

Internal mic was working OOB but I cannot output sound on the HDMI.
Tried several snd_hda_intel options such as model=dell-s14 but no progress.
Some info...

Suspend

Suspend to RAM sometimes freezes and I've to force power off.